Re: an itch to scratch

Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za> writes:
> Why is this not the last set of changes made to a file? If
> $Rev$ is the "the revision in which the file last changed"
> (which happens to be any number of changes behind HEAD) then
> $Rev$ - 1 must be the revision just before the last change to
> the file.

$Rev$ is not the revision in which the file last changed. It is the
revision on which the working copy file is based; could be arbitrarily
far behind HEAD.

> The contents of the file should not have changed between $Rev$
> and HEAD, should they?

Yes, they could have.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:57 2006